Somebody must have produced some pictures he didn't want to go public.
Posted on 06/22/2005 9:35:47 AM PDT by ambrose
US senator sorry for Nazi remarks
A US senator has apologised for comparing US interrogation practices at the Guantanamo Bay prison camp in Cuba to those under Hitler and Stalin.
Dick Durbin has been criticised by Republicans and some fellow Democrats for last week's comments.
They came after he quoted from an FBI report alleging inmates were chained to the floor without food or water.
He has now offered the Senate his "heartfelt apologies", saying he never meant to offend US troops.
"They're the best. I never, ever intended any disrespect for them," the Illinois senator said.
He also apologised to survivors of the Nazi Holocuast.
"I'm sorry if anything that I said caused any offence or pain to those who have such bitter memories of the Holocaust, the greatest moral tragedy of our time," he said.
Recent critics of the high-security detention centre at Guantanamo include former Presidents Jimmy Carter and Bill Clinton, who has called for its closure.
Amnesty International has branded the camp "the gulag of our times".
But US Vice-President Dick Cheney says there are no plans to close the prison, and describes the detainees as "bad people" and "hardcore".
Many of the 500 men held at the camp have been there for three years without trial.
Note that he apologized "if he offended anyone". He did not retract his statements.
IOW, what he said was "I meant what I said, and I'm sorry if that offends you. And I'm sorry you are making such a big deal about it."
WOW ...if Turbin had been a repub it would have read: "REPUBLICAN U.S. Senator....."REPUBICAN Senator Dick Durbin was castigated by Democrat and a miniscule number of Republican "
Just Amazing.
He's not sorry. Zot, I am so sick of the everlasting apologizing ... it doesn't change a thing.
He's only sorry about the backlash, he still has to retract his words.
Apology NOT ACCEPTED Saboteur
Stop Dick Turbinladen Durbin before he aids our enemy again!
DO SOMETHING ABOUT THIS!!!!Contact your REPS
He has now offered the Senate his "heartfelt apologies", saying he never meant to offend US troops.
"They're the best. I never, ever intended any disrespect for them," the Illinois senator said.
Never meant to offend, or intended any disrespect. My ass. How can he compare our soldiers to Nazis and not mean to offend or disrespect?!! This man is a compulsive liar.
What he's sorry about is that the spineless Republicans got some backbone about this issue, as they should for EVERYTHING else.
Somebody must have produced some pictures he didn't want to go public.
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